Psychopathology: How Dissociative Identity Disorder Can Lead to Offending Behaviour

This report discusses how dissociative identity disorder can lead to offending behaviour. It explains the causes and symptoms of this mental disorder and how it affects the individual's behaviour. The report also highlights the relevance of dissociation in forensic psychiatry.

Dissociative identity
disorder

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Psychopathology is defined as abnormal psychology in which the study is used to held on
the mental disorders and unusual behaviour which usually creates an understanding towards the
genesis of mental disorder. Therefore, it is well analysed that the mental disorders are critical as
per the elongation of time which create complications with the individual who is facing such
type of disorders. In this report, the major discussion is based on dissociative identity disorder
which is defined as a mental situation or condition in which the person is usually performing
various multiple personalities (Benau, 2020). In addition, the various identities are usually
control a person behaviour at a different time with conditions of memory loss, delusion or
depression. The dissociative identity disorder is usually caused by various factors in which one
of the most important causes that is associated with the past trauma. In this report, the major
discussion is based on the dissociative identity disorder that led to creating the issues of
offending behavior among the individuals. Offending behaviour of the individual within the
dissociative identity disorders are raised due to the rising complications and symptoms which
usually depend on the situation of memory loss for a certain period which may create the
complications of aggressiveness. The perception which makes creates consequences for the
individual that they are distorted or distracted from their original personalities (Craparo, Ortu,
and van der Hart, 2019).
MAIN BODY
In the whole contexts of the mental illness of the disease, the role of violent behavior is
associated as common for the people who is dealing with the consequences of dissociative
identity disorders. In addition to this, such type of people is usually facing the issues for the
prolong period and their personalities are rises which are violent and they are usually indulging
in the behavior of violence. There is harmful stereotype that is well related with the mentally ill
patient in which they are frequently showing the behavior which is based on the violent
criminals. In the context of dissociative identity disorders, it is well related to the factor and
research which is shown that dissociation is the major factor for violence and it is seen to be
more often in the crime of extreme violence (Dos Santos, 2019). The offending behavior of the
individual who is facing the issues of dissociative identity disorders are common because it led
to creates the aggressiveness in the individual that they get offended due to the repetition of

words and some activities that create issues with the individual due to the illness of mental
disease. The condition of the patient is usually violent when they face the issues of danger or any
complication which may create the behavior which is aggressive and usually perform some of
the activities that is showing the extreme violence in the patient with mental disease (Ganslev,
Storebø, Callesen, Ruddy, and Søgaard, 2020).
The topic is well related with the offending behavior in the context of dissociative identity
disorder where the subject matters that is most relevant to forensic psychiatry. For instance, with
or without a history of dissociative identity disorder is usually reported by offenders who is
presenting for a forensic psychiatric examination. The concept of dissociation is relevant that
may illustrate the various factor which lead to creating the clinical symptomology that focuses on
violent behavior when they are dealing with the issue of dissociative identity disorder. There are
various mechanisms and process which dignified at the people with the violent crime was
reported 30% are usually homicides where the number of studies is well focused on the
dissociation and crime which is usually characterized by the lack of planning and premeditation
that is conducted in the systematic and descriptive investigation of the memory loss in the group
of offenders which is showing the report which is convicted for the violent crime (Haagen, van
Rijn, Knipscheer, van der Aa, and Kleber, 2018).
Dissociation is defined as the disruption of the integrated function of consciousness,
memory loss, perception, perspective, representation, and motor control. The dissociative
symptoms are usually perceived as the inclusive and destructive factor which maybe show their
collaborative behavior in terms of positive or negative. The negative aspect of dissociative
identity disorder is usually creating the offenses that is well related with the offending behavior
among the individual. In addition to this, it is very essential to raise the positiveness which is
defined the common functions of continuity as the subjective experience in the term of
dissociative symptom that is a flashback into awareness and perceived by loss of continuation in
the experience (Longden, Moskowitz, Dorahy, and Perona‐Garcelán, 2018). Whereas, the
negative dissociative symptom that is related with memory loss usually shows their result by
inability to make the access towards the information or to control the normal mental function.
The pathological dissociation is usually linked and psychological trauma or stress which may
show their signs and symptoms that create aggressive behavior that is offensive for someone.
Therefore, the dissociative identity disorder core features of the dissociative disorder in which

the experience are usually focused on the diagnosis of acute stress disorder, post-traumatic stress
disorder and borderline personality disorder that show the offending behavior among the general
population because of aggressive factor that enable the brain of function in such a way that create
negative perception which may arise the issue of violence among the people (Paris, 2019).
Overall, dissociative identity disorder is well related with the challenges because of the
long-term treatment in the current study. It is usually noted that the symptoms of dissociative
identity disorders are frequently severe and show the symptoms which is aggressive where the
rate of mental health treatment and the economic burden are usually rising in the certain country
when taking the comparison with the psychiatric disorders which include bipolar disorder and
major depressive symptoms (Shinn and et. al., 2020). In the context of dissociative identity
disorders, the individual is forgetting their identity and perceives someone's identity which is
aggressive and shows the violence among the general population. therefore, the trauma which
may be associated with the individual as per their experience is create a threshold on the function
of brain by which the brain itself developed personality which tries to overcome the challenges
and situation with the aggressive and confident behavior and sometimes it led to cause the issue
of crime or offenses (Sun and et. al., 2019).
The offending behavior are usually associated with various mental diseases. Within
dissociative identity disorder, it is usually common because the number of people is usually
facing day-to-day challenges in their life and they want to overcome in which the action potential
of the brain usually creates a threshold. As per this, the brain develops a personality which have
a potential to reduce the barrier and overcome the challenge with another personality which is
termed as the dissociative identity disorder. Therefore, such personalities usually show their
violence due to the negative impact or trauma of past experiences which is faced by an individual
for the prolonged period (Vismara, Sechi, and Lucarelli, 2019). The proper justification and
cognitive behavior therapy are used in order to prevent the disease or the mental illness which
may helpful to provide the factor or relevance regards with the truth that shows that the person
carry another personality. Overall, the condition of dissociative identity disorders is usually
related with the individual where the person faces various challenges and difficulties in their past
experience or some incident which may cause the issue of trauma that enables another
personality. The threshold of the brain has some limitations and after that, the brain itself
develops a personality to overcome challenges which makes create hurdle and challenge to

restrain the day-to-day issue. The offending behavior personality to reduce the challenges or fear
that the may person face for a long time (Wahbeh, McDermott, and Sagher, 2018).
CONCLUSION
As per the above discussion, it is well analyzed that the dissociative identity disorder is
defined as a mental disease in which the person itself create another personality or shows
multiple disorders which may create complication in order to recognize the original one.
Therefore, such dissociative disorder is usually rising the issues that is associated with crime and
violence. In addition, the newer personality may be recognized as the symptom of dissociative
identity disorder where a person itself develops another personality to overcome the situation
they start to commit the crime which may show the offending personality. In order to reduce the
complication of dissociative identity disorder, the proper strategies and medication are used in
order to prevent issues that are related to that dissociative identity disorder which may lead to
cause the issue of offending behavior among the population.

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